Games You Played Today Oratorio Tangram

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#2947

Hey this is echoing an idle thought I had.

I actually liked my two hours with Hero Project and have it in the thousand game deep maybe one day backlog.

My thought was man you are either immediately on board with NIS or why even bother? Like Prinny 2 (which is maybe better than 1 but I ain’t finding out because Prinny 1 is awful) is called Operation Panties d00d. Like that’s as big a stamp as anything on a product. I appreciate NIS developed things are as much as what they are, I can also go woah yeah not for me.

#2948

I like ZHP, I think it’s one of NIS’s better games – and certainly one of their better attempts at reconciling the heroism you always do in their comedic games with the, well, being a hero part – but it’s also a game that is not going to change much from the first hour or two. If you aren’t digging it, you don’t need to keep playing.

The Interesting NIS Game List, An Opinionated Selection:

  • Zettai Hero Project (goofy light Shirenlike, but will probably bore people who actually play many roguelikes)
  • Soul Nomad (neat mechanics, a more serious story than usual for NIS executed pretty well, hilariously cruel bonus “evil route” which gives you exactly what you should expect)
  • The Witch’s Coven and the Labyrinth of Refrain (dungeon crawler with some interesting takes on how party compositon/resource blowing works; less absolutely misanthropic than Hundred Knight, but still more in that direction and with some similarly tasteless humor – I still need to finish this)
  • Any Single Disgaea (they are all basically the same thing)
  • Everyone says Phantom Brave is cool but I haven’t played it
  • Rhapsody is probably unbearable but boy, they sure dubbed that
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#2949

i remember having to sleep on this fight after getting whupped so bad

#2950

I’ve been trying to get first place on, I believe, 2nd Heat, 1st Stage of Ridge Racer R4 using the Japanese Team (with the Italian manufacturer) for a few days now, but I cannot catch that motherfucker in first place. I’m always just trailing him. If I could just get him at a corner I could drift around him. Fuck! Why isn’t the map on the top right? The view toggle button is a real pain in my ass on the PSP.

#2951

They say that if you get on Titanfall 2 late at night and set your matchmaking preferences right you can get a game where the final score is within 5%.

I was watching someone play Fortnite and stewing because the player characters control like WoW toons and had to run some laps on the walls.

#2952

The biggest problem of Phantom Brave is that its optimal strategy is 100% RNG controlled, which is super annoying.

#2953

(whoa I think that’s one of my first ever SB posts in that thread)
Wourme, thank you for recommending me Windosill and Glum Buster 8 years ago. I really liked those a whole lot. I should try Hammerfight.

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#2954

If you do try Hammerfight, be sure to turn mouse sensitivity all the way up if you find the controls difficult.

Fun fact: I could not get Hammerfight to run properly on its release but I later tried it again on a newer machine. After finishing the game, I created a thread about it on the old site in which I mentioned that I had revisited it on the recommendation of a friend. That friend was in fact the not-yet-registered-at-SB @Bee.

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#2955

in the last stretch of P5, having killed the boss of the 7th dungeon.

a bit disappointed, even though he has a cool appearance, i thought they wasted a much more interesting character as a villain in that dungeon itself, but instead of making him interesting anyway, they caved completely into animuism

#2956

In the space of a few hours, I went from “I have never played Panzer Bandit” to “I am seriously considering paying $100+ for a copy of Panzer Bandit to covet for the rest of my life”

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#2957

really? it’s good, but it’s like $20-40 good, not $100, surely?

#2958

I played it

it is beautiful

it is perfect

it is the platonic ideal of a beat em up in my mind

one of the characters is a robot with guns and lasers and grenades and also he’s smoking a cigar because fuck you, he’s a robot

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#2959

image

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#2960

isee

oh, well, that explains everything

guess it’s time to buy that PBBG Overdrive Switch port

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#2961

oh shit they did mad stalker

#2962

oh yeah, there’s definitely a similarity in feel between asuka, panzer bandit and mad stalker

#2963

I played about 90 minutes of Vermintide 2 since a lot of my friends are and found it shockingly boring and joyless. The environments are bland, it’s poorly conveyed why you’re running (not very fast) from point A to point B and the melee combat is slow and mindless. I’m sure you unlock more interesting attacks and techniques but I have zero interest in engaging with the Diablo loot system and playing to get to that point when the game world is this uninteresting. It lacks any of the charm or freneticism of L4D while still having the gall to rip off the exact same special infected mechanics from it. Even with friends this was a Borderlands-level baffler to me.

#2964

tea time begins promptly @ 3:50

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#2965

I’m finally working off my rust in DDR. Jumped up to double 10, where I want to be. I can clear Bag and most of the Paranoia remixes, except for Survivor, because fuck Survivor. To be fair, I’ve never tried it with speed mods

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#2966

Is your technique the one where you grip both rails, one with each hand and don’t really put your weight on the arrows? The best Double player I’ve ever seen (I saw him get a AA on a 9) did that.

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